January 7 (5M^_^: Seven of Seven)
Welcome back as Five-Minute Anime breaks into the new year! Today, filling in the fifth question mark on the front page, we have a more obscure target -- Nana: Seven of Seven. It's a light comedy anime from the creator of Sgt. Frog in which young Nana is accidentally split into seven copies of herself. (Fun fact: their voices are all different in the original, but Veronica Taylor does them all in the dub. You know her as Ash Ketchum.) Here's...
<a href="http://www.fiveminute.net/a1/sevenofseven.html">Five-Minute <i>Seven of Seven</i></a> -- HEY! What the hell was THAT? I don't get it. It wasn't supposed to be about <i>Voyager</i>. Where did this overlong dialogue piece a la The Disbanding come from, and what did it do with my anime fiver? Something weird is going on here... Well, anyway, I'm off to a math conference, but be here when I get back for the filling in of that final question mark! [Side note: We're getting a lot of traffic right now from <a href="http://www.the-isb.com/">Chris's Invincible Super-Blog</a>. Why? Because of <a href="http://www.fiveminute.net/comics/marvelcomics1.html">my entry in Chris's fifth-anniversary contest</a> (the second one of these I've entered). There'll be a proper update for it later.] |
That was pretty cool, Zeke. I liked a lot of the lines in your fiver, but just to pick one:
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Nice one, man. Good to see the Underused Characters' Tavern is still open. |
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Other elements of the show appear here only to get dismissed. Nana's copies really did have distinct personalities (except blue, who was the "real" one), they had nicknames to keep each other straight, and they all inherited Nana's crush on a boy in her class. To be honest, I only got three episodes into Seven of Seven. It's the anime equivalent of a Saturday morning kids' show, so I felt a little old for it. Of course, since it's anime, Nana is a bit... bouncier than you would see in a western cartoon for the grade-school set. Okay, a lot bouncier. And it's based on a manga with even less age-appropriate visuals. So the whole thing makes me cringe a bit. It's part of a general phenomenon I discussed in the first half of this recent LJ post. Oh, by the way, "nana" is Japanese for 7. That's the joke in the title, and it's the reason "Nana Rangers" isn't quite as ridiculous a coincidence as it sounds. Anyway, glad you two liked it. (Now where's everybody else?) |
Not everybody is a fanatic about relatively obscure anime, Z. I'm certainly not. Probably the most obscure anime I'd consider myself a fan of is The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Otherwise it's mon shows, magical girls, Miyazaki, and Takahashi.
(And Lucky Star. How can a dance with such meaningless lyrics be so catchy?) |
I was afraid of this. Nate, click the link. As my "reaction" was supposed to indicate, this update is not remotely what I billed it as.
(On the plus side, this means somebody actually got my reference to the Lucky Star theme in the Sailor Moon fiver. I completely agree re: meaninglessness/catchiness.) |
Seven: Only a mild predilection for the colour indigo.
Janeway: Red, Seven. Your favourite colour is red. Seven: But indigo... Is not a real colour, just something made up by the numerologists when they were assigning the colours of the spectrum back in the dark ages. Doc: Not... right away. Re-integrating seven people takes much more complicated calculations than just differentiating one. It could take weeks. Janeway: Weeks? Doc: Have you ever tried to do a septuple integral? Pfft, theoreticians. Another pass through a prism will sort them out. Er. Unsort them in? (Well, OK, maybe not Black Lant^H^H^H Seven, but there's always dark current in any instrument. You just have to subtract her out with the baseline) Chakotay: So what did you do? Vaporize them? Give 'em the airlock? Bandpass filter. /nerrrrrrrd! Side note: We're getting a lot of traffic right now from Chris's Invincible Super-Blog. Why? Because of my entry in Chris's fifth-anniversary contest (the second one of these I've entered). There'll be a proper update for it later. A comic? I didn't know you could dr--oh. Never mind. (I keed, I keed. I can't dr-- either.) Nice update, Zeke. How's it feel to be back in the saddle? |
Actually, I didn't. My fandom of Lucky Star is completely external.
I'm assuming your point is that you fived something that wasn't technically an anime. For that, I call foul. You can't call it Five-Minute Anime unless it's supposed to be a fiver of an anime. |
I enjoyed that, especially the math jokes.
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There were a few other lines, but I forget what they were. Aside from "Space Pepsi". That was quite an amusing thing for Janeway to blurt out. Quote:
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Now this is more like it! Sorry I whined about the low turnout earlier.
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But this wasn't a fiver. It's like 493 times too long. [ETA: Check the front page for a little not-quite-update.] |
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There was a Motteke! Serafuku reference in Sailor Moon and I missed it? Oh, right at the beginning. Dur. I r smrt. |
No, I meant that if you made a Lucky Star remark or reference, I hadn't remembered it. I made my remark because I was listing my tastes in anime and felt that a joke would enhance it.
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5 ^ Hutchison, Niels (2004). "Music For Measure: On the 300th Anniversary of Newton's Opticks". Colour Music. http://home.vicnet.net.au/~colmusic/opticks3.htm. Retrieved 2006-08-11. 6 ^ Newton, Isaac (1704). Opticks. Newton fell off the shoulders of the giants and got heavily into occult gibberish towards the end. The spectrum essentially goes red, orange, yellow, green, blue, more blue, purple we can barely see and basically ignore. /knowitall |
^ You say occult, but that really just sounds like scholasticism.
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Hmm, no guesses so far about the final series? (Check the front page to see what I mean.)
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^^Everyone always means their own Doctor. And we'll see...
Guesses? Death Note fits the pattern. So does Excel Saga, but it's already crack. Not sure if you've seen Elfen Lied. Lucky Star, same as Excel Saga. Death Note is easier to make fun of, but Elfen Lied seems more your thing...still gonna have to say the first. |
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(Not really following, since I don't buy comics, but I got the introductory issue on Free Comics Day and I've been reading up on the background on the DC wiki. I thought Indigo was going to be Altruism to balance Avarice until I saw they'd written Compassion in very tiny, very missable font. All the colours either side of Green seem to be opposites, or opposites once removed (Love and Anger (nearly hate), Fear and Hope, Compassion and Avarice (nearly Selflessness and Selfishness)). Quote:
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Being a reference whore, the Vashta Nerada joke will definitely be my favorite quote from this one, but it really was wonderful all-round. It has been far too long since I heard an intelligent anti-Chakotay joke.
I'm hoping for Death Note or Azumanga Daioh, on the grounds that those are the only two animes I've actually ever seen. |
non mi frega anime, frankly, but I cheered so loudly at seeing Voyager content that I woke both cats. And it's damn funny! nice job!
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